Strategic Alliancse

Discussion Question. In working responses Discussion Question, choose examples experience find cases Web discuss. Credit references make relevant examples real companies. Analyse journal article regard proposed integrated framework knowledge tacitness trust act mediating mechanisms relationship partner characteristics alliance outcomes.

Nielsen, B.B. & Nielsen, S. (2009). Learning and innovation in international strategic alliances:

an empirical test of the role of trust and tacitness. Journal of Management Studies, 46 (6): 1031-1056

According to Nielsen & Nielsen "learning and innovation in ISA [International Strategic Alliances] are likely to be influenced by a firm's ability (know-how) and willingness (protectiveness) to transfer knowledge, mediated by the codifiability and transferability of knowledge to be shared (knowledge tacitness) and the quality of the relationship (trust)" (Nielsen & Nielsen 2009: 1033). Ideally, relationships between firms across international boundaries are characterized by a free flow of communication between entities and the alliance is founded in cultural understanding...
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